Re: [XHTML+XML] html and body size

bipède wrote:

I have found the work arround, in fact in real XHTML with netscape /
mozilla / firefox if you want to have a background color or a repeated
background image that always fill the window you should set it for
'html' tag and not 'body' tag.

It was simple but it seems that no one have found it until now (nothing
on internet about it).

Hardly, it's documented in the CSS specification.

"The background of the root element becomes the background of the
canvas and covers the entire canvas, anchored at the same point as it
would be if it was painted only for the root element itself. The root
element does not paint this background again.

For HTML documents, however, we recommend that authors specify the
background for the BODY element rather than the HTML element. For HTML
documents whose root HTML element has computed values of 'transparent'
for 'background-color' and 'none' for 'background-image', user agents
must instead use the computed value of those properties from that HTML
element's first BODY element child when painting backgrounds for the
canvas, and must not paint a background for that BODY element. This
does not apply to XHTML documents."
- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#q2

I think the replies to your post focussed on the height: 100% issue
rather than the background issue because that seemed to be what you
were asking about.

Steve